At home I have a Lenovo mid-tower system that does just about everything
for me. I think it was $700 (a mid-range desktop PC) that houses my Myth
backend, a 1TB disk for storing recordings and I rsync my notebook home
directory to it. The kids don't have much need for data storage yet so
it's just me. The server isn't RAIDed, I don't care if I lose my
recordings and the data is still on my notebook. If I did RAID I would put
in a RAID 1 setup using mdadm. The disks are cheap enough and rebuilding a
RAID 5 on these huge disks just takes too long.
The system also acts as my firewall, dhcp, dns, web server (occasionally),
and Mediatomb server. It also acts as the vpn end-point to my office
network through which my voip ATA connects to the Asterisk PBX. If I
didn't have the office systems, it might also act as email server and spam
filter.
Previously I had a myth system and an old PC acting as firewall/backup.
When I tried to convert the myth to HTDV output and put a 1TB drive in it,
it overheated and failed. It was then that I decided a split front-back
end would be the best choice.
John Van Ostrand
Net Direct Inc.
CTO, co-CEO
564 Weber St. N. Unit 12
map
Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6
john at netdirect.ca
Ph: 866-883-1172
ext.5102
Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware
Fx: 519-883-8533
kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org wrote on 07/31/2009 09:07:55 AM:
> From:
>> Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com>
>> To:
>> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>> Date:
>> 07/31/2009 09:08 AM
>> Subject:
>> Re: [kwlug-disc] (Home) External Storage?
>> Sent by:
>>kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org>> Check out this article on building a 10Tb (raw) drive array for
> under $1000 (US). It may give you some ideas, at least.
>>http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/10tb-hdd-raid,2344.html>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser at gmail.com>
wrote:
> If I were in your position, I'd definitely take a look at building a
> small system and using FreeNAS. When I was looking for NAS
> products, they all seemed to be either very expensive, or limited in
> functionality.
>>> unsolicited wrote:
> - it would seem to be nifty if it ended up also being the media
> storage for something like MythTV or a Popcorn Hour box,
>http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?> pluginoption=productinfo&item_id=12.
>> Check out XBMC. There is a Live-CD version you can use. I don't
> think it can do PVR stuff at this point, but it is an excellent
> system for playing back media from the network.
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